The news this week that platform engine provider FNZ has been ordered by the competition watchdog to sell GBST was a bit of a shock. 

I’m a big fan of Monty Python and the famous ‘nudge, nudge’ sketch came to mind this week as the DWP announced plans to give a ‘stronger nudge’ to pension savers to seek guidance from Pension Wise before taking benefits.

It’s hard to find a silver lining in current Covid cloud but one of them may be a boost to recruiting the next generation of Financial Planners.

A couple of surveys we reported on this week reminded me about the epic scale of pension ignorance among the great British public.